Conservation

1. Conservation By: Ruth Grace Dupingay

2. Conservation Is an ethic of resource use, allocation and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world, its fisheries, habitats and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation which are seen as important to protect the natural world. Those who follow the conservation ethic and especially those who advocate or work toward conservation is called conservationists.

3. Trans-boarder conservation Trans-boarder conservation or Transboundary conservation can be loosely defined as the subset of international relations focusing in particular protection of international boarders and boarder region such as the boarder territories. Applying trans-boarder is often less straight forward, as exemplified in an attempt to a large number of environmental issues, water conflicts, air pollution, migratory species, and trans-boarder landscapes and ecosystems.

4. However there are treaties to be attempted to go beyond the settlement of disputes over rights toward the protection of its territory by diplomats and scholars who have developed a somewhat convoluted web of inter-rational legal principles around the subject of international territories.

5. Example:   Fierce disputes over the quantity and quality of transborder water including rivers, lakes, and even groundwater.   Mercury emissions from an industrial facility that directly affect a neighboring state downwind do constitute a transborder problem .

6. Sources: http://hotbabefatchicks.hubpages.com/hub/The-Meaning-of-Conservation http://www.ecoca.ro/meteo/tutorial/Sustainability/Older/Conservation_and_Preservation.html http://www.ask.com/question/define-renewable-natural-resources